I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future… — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crazy thing about 'Hook' was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.” — Al Stone Copy Share Image
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are or what you've been through realize in this life there is nothing that you cannot do" Imagine… — Yanatha Desouvre Copy Share Image
I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing,… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary… — Lights Copy Share Image
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human… — Jerome Ravetz Copy Share Image
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Reality became something of the past five minutes ago, replaced with a dirty fantasy she’d conjured up in her bed late at… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study,… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
